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Presented by: Detective James Trainum (ret.), Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department; and Deja Vishny, Homicide Practice Group Coordinator and Deputy Training Director, Wisconsin State Public Defender
Presented by: Clare Garvie, Sr. Associate, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology; Kaitlin Jackson, Attorney, Bronx Defenders; and Joshua Kroll, PhD, computer scientist, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, School of Information, University of California at Berkeley
This webinar was supported by Grant No. 2013-MU-BX-K014 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Information and reports related to recording of interrogations.
NACDL supports the videotaping of all law enforcement interrogations from beginning to end and calls upon Congress and state legislatures to pass legislation mandating this practice.
Letter to members of Congress regarding much-needed reforms to federal civil asset forfeiture laws, as addressed in the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration (FAIR) Act of 2015 (H.R. 540/S. 255)
Coalition letter to members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees regarding proposed reforms to federal forfeiture law.
Coalition letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Democratic House leadership regarding a proposed ban on flavored tobacco products intended to protect youth but will affect communities of color and those targeted by policing, as addressed in the Protecting American Lungs and Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2020 (H.R. 2339).
Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have statutory, judicial, or self-imposed requirements that police questioning of arrested persons held in custody must be electronically recorded.
U.S. Sentencing Commission Overview of the First Step Act.
Police body-worn camera footage can be inconclusive at best and misleading at worst, and thus it is imperative that the defense community understand the key technical features of body-worn camera systems. For example, police body-worn cameras automatically save the 30 seconds of footage prior to the officer activating the camera. Moreover, other available data kept by camera systems could reveal which officers reviewed the footage and when, and who marked the video for deletion.
2017 National Drug Threat Assessment by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
History of Race in America presented by Jeffery Robinson, Deputy Legal Director and Director of the Trone Center for Justice and Equality, American Civil Liberties Union
Race Matters I: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice September 14-15, 2017 | Detroit, MI
This page contains materials and information related to policing, including interrogations, investigation tactics, procedure, and even a glossary of slang terms.
Letter to the House Judiciary Committee regarding penalties and prosecutorial requirements for revenge porn cases, as proposed in the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act of 2019 (H.R. 2896).
While the Miranda decision is an important part of our legal structure that in many instances serves to enforce the mandate of the Fifth Amendment, it has not been effective in greatly diminishing the number of involuntary confessions.
